A 90-minute breakout session at the Arctic Circle Conference comprised of a roundtable discussion delivered by selected speakers, with a guided discussion among all participants to follow. It seeks to break down the national borders and academic disciplines that often silo Arctic research into compartmentalized working groups, projects, and databases through lessons from past UK scientific expeditions and current successful multidisciplinary, multinational circumpolar endeavors.
The event aims to foster a dialogue between Arctic and non-Arctic states, indigenous peoples of the North, social scientists, natural scientists, and humanities scholars that does not exist at present. By bringing together an international group of researchers from the North, Europe, Asia, and beyond, the breakout session aims to ensure that future climate change research projects move beyond the traditional obstacles of national and discipline barriers to be comprehensive, inclusive, sustainable, and globally engaged while taking local interests into account.
Key objectives of the workshop include but are not limited to:
The event will build on the successful breakout session on Traditional Knowledge-based Innovation in the Age of Climate Change which we hosted at Arctic Circle in 2015 and on the network that has been established as a result of this session.
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